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Of the Texas State Capitol in austin. Texas has played a rather outsize Role International political world, hasnt it . Absolutely. For texas goes, america goes in many respects. That has never been more true than today. Texas has always sort of lead the way for america in so many respects. We had three president s from here in the last 60 years. Lbj, president george w. Bush and president george w. Bush, so texas is an outsized presence in American Life, and texans wouldnt have it any other way....

Many respects. That has never been more true than today. Texas has always sort of lead the way for america in so many respects. We had three president s from here in the last 60 years. Lbj, president george w. Bush and president george w. Bush, so texas is an outsized presence in American Life, and texans wouldnt have it any other way. You have worked with one of those president s as well. Well, have you worked with all three in some capacity . Lets start with lbj who is right here in boston aus...

Books, including the making modern economics. As always, we appreciate grace, jfk in the presidency. Mark updegrove. Were sitting here in the shadow of the Texas State Capitol in austin. Texas has played a rather outsize Role International political world, hasnt it . Absolutely. For texas goes, america goes in many respects. That has never been more true than today. Texas has always sort of lead the way for america in so many respects. We had three president s from here in the last 60 years. Lbj...

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Did today, especially the fact he has chosen to act alone through basically the administrative power he has as president rather than trying to go through congress. But president ial frustration with congress not acting on this issue, with congress being enthralled to the gun lobby, that is not unique to this administration. Even when other president s have been able to get more sweeping gun reforms done, it has been generations and generations now in which the gun lobby has so threataled congres...

Michael beschloss about that spectacle and what it might mean about the trump president spcy. Thats coming up a little later this hour. That story about jeff flake and the remarkable comments he made today on the senate floor, that was the story that dominated beltway Media Coverage today. And i think because of that there were a number of other important stories that broke today that didnt get as much attention as they might otherwise. Just because the jeff flake story understandably took so mu...

American soldiers were killed and two more wounded in ambush in the western african nation of niger. All green berets on routine patrol with local troops when the attack occurred. And more details about the deadly shooting in las vegas. Clark county sheriff revised number of wounded to 489. More than 300 already released from the hospital. Gunmans girlfriend Marilou Danley also arrived from the philippines and whisked away for questioning by fbi agents, described as quote person of interest in t...

Got the most specific item on his list of grievances against the United States, got it checked off the list by the george w. Bush administration. That is what happened. During the first gulf war when george bushs father was president , over half a million troops had been based in saudi arabia. Saudi bases were the launching pad for attacks to defend kuwait against the forces of hussain. After the first gulf war was over, thousands of troops stayed on those saudi bases thereafter. But in 2003, le...

Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. They walked the articles as you see across the capitol to the senate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed the House Resolution transmitting the two articles and naming the impeachment managers, shifting the next phase to the senate. As the articles reached the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell officially set the trial in motion. I further ask consent that the secretary of the senate be directed to notify the house of representatives at the ti...

Presumably they released that stuff because they had to release it. no beef there. they didnt have to release it without notifying the sandy hook families in advance that they were going to so those families could at least brace themselves. when we spoke to the fbi about this today, they told us this was the natural sequence of events that they saw emerging from the foia request, so at least we know they thought it was natural. so, as i said, it was a busy news day today. a bunch of i think impo...